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Kronos for Long-Term Care

Today’s long-term care providers face sweeping demographic, legislative and economic changes that are transforming their delivery of care. Reduced reimbursement, the Affordable Care Act employer mandate, and an aging population are just of few areas of concern. Your success navigating through these changes will depend on the quality of care your residents receive and how efficient you are in delivering it.

At Kronos®, we’re uniquely positioned to help you address the challenges that are inherent to managing your workforce today and tomorrow.

Reduce labor costs by capturing actual time worked and accurately applying work and pay rules

Afford the Affordable Care Act by providing accurate information about average hours worked by full-time and part-time employees, and allowing managers to monitor schedules, time records and benefits enrollment in real time

Minimize compliance risk to meet mandated staffing ratios and other state and federal regulations by consistently applying the necessary rules, regulations and policies to all staffing decisions

Advanced Home Care's previous workforce management system and processes were not working, nor was it allowing optimized use of the McKesson Homecare™ solution. Following a patient home visit, employees logged onto a laptop to enter their hours and select a billing code in McKesson. Some clinicians waited until the night before payroll closed to enter 2 weeks of their time and activities. Faulty memories and code misinterpretation led to a 30% error rate. Automating payroll and adding performance management capabilities within its existing system would have been too costly. Using the Kronos solution integrated with McKesson, Advanced Home Care has virtually eliminated paycheck corrections — reducing its compliance risk and increasing productivity — and saves more than $900,000 annually in labor and time.

Midwest Health has been expanding its senior healthcare community for more than 30 years and needed a better payroll processing solution. The service bureau had numerous drawbacks. Kronos delivers in-house solution for more control and better reporting.

Want to create a safer, more therapeutic environment for staff and patients alike? Nursing leadership engaged in workforce automation can build and maintain a strong, sustainable infrastructure for the future. HealthLeaders Media conducts a nurse staffing strategy survey with healthcare leaders. Results show just over half of the respondents felt their nurse staff levels to be adequate, leaving the other half dissatisfied. In fact, 39% considered their teams understaffed. At the same time, 38% expressed concern that their scheduling and staffing levels do not promote a healthy professional engagement for nursing teams.

The latest developments in HR management are about changing the way human resources professionals gather, process, and evaluate information, as well as changing the questions they ask. Often characterized as a “feeling and intuitive” profession — one that relies primarily on observation and instinct rather than data and strategy, human Resource (HR) healthcare executives must evolve from guardians of the status quo to trailblazers for innovation and growth. Using Evidence-Based Human Resources, HR professionals can now focus on both business strategy and standards of evidence which allows them to demonstrate how “intangible” human capital can be observed and measured, and add tangible business results.

Designed with home health and hospice in mind, HomeCare Link facilitates data sharing between Kronos applications and other systems, including point of care solutions. HomeCare Link is a data configuration and conversion tool that allows you to quickly and reliably import billed hours into Workforce Central for comparison with employee time records.